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Episode 9 - With 100% More Holiday Bumper

December 17, 2021

We paid fives of dollars in production costs, just for you. Mark plays with docker (instead of doing the 12 TDDs), and can barely talk. Tim wants to know what to buy developers for Christmas, and still builds computers from parts he gets in a store.

Chapters

00:00 - All you get for $5
01:50 - Not the Same Guy
02:26 - Last Time on DevFriday
03:38 - Mark Tries to Docker
06:24 - Without the Yak Shaving
07:42 - Volumes of Information
09:30 - First Steps with Docker
10:46 - Docker Support Line
11:21 - Composing Ourselves
14:14 - Guessing the Desktop
16:14 - Well, Now I’m Ready to Start
17:29 - Dockering Utilities
19:47 - Can’t Connect to Localhost
22:35 - More Like 6 TDDs
24:50 - React to Testing
28:21 - Mark’s Mouth
29:44 - Not a Health Professional
33:48 - 3D Printing Teeth
34:20 - Can’t Watch This Anymore
35:18 - Technically a Business Expense
35:51 - The Audio is Better Over There
36:53 - MicroCenter, Still a Thing
38:21 - With Decent Prices
38:59 - Build It There
41:24 - Buy it for the Video Card
42:07 - What’s a SoundFont?
45:36 - And Modems?
48:00 - Does it have LEDs?
48:36 - What do you want for Christmas?
51:32 - Developer Gifts
53:22 - Keyboards
55:48 - Mice
59:26 - Next Week?

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